Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2006
Abstract
An actor-centered approach to the gendering of urban spaces demonstrates how individuals respond to competing ideologies in determining the rules that surround women’s presence in urban, Muslim spaces. This article examines how women in the Ville Nouvelle of Fes, Morocco draw on local conceptualizations of hospitality, kinship, and shame as they debate the gendering of four urban areas: the street, the café, a cosmopolitan exercise club, and cyber space. Women’s tactics for occupying social space indicate the resilience of local culture in the face of ideologies that attempt to posit a specific vision of women in the Moroccan nation state.
Published In
City & Society, Vol. 18, Issue 2, pp. 288-311, ISSN 0893-0465, online ISSN 1548-744X. © 2006 by the American Anthropological Association.
Publication Title
City & Society
ISSN
1548-744X
DOI
10.1525/city.2006.18.2.288